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Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s

Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s

Hugh Pym and Nick Triggle BBC News BBC News Keira Bell says she deeply regrets the treatments that she underwent Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban the private sale of cross-sex hormones such as testosterone to under 18s. Lawyers acting for three people – including campaigner […]

Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors 

Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors 

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers younger than 19, inching closer to fulfilling a key campaign promise to ban treatments that he and his administration have cast as experimental and dangerous, in conflict with major medical associations and transgender […]

GOP senators introduce bill to ban taxpayer funding for abortions

GOP senators introduce bill to ban taxpayer funding for abortions

Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes abortion this week.   If passed, the bill would essentially codify a decades-old policy called the Hyde Amendment which has banned the use of any federal dollars on abortions since 1977.   There are […]

Trump FDA officially withdraws long-delayed menthol cigarette ban

Trump FDA officially withdraws long-delayed menthol cigarette ban

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn a rule that would have banned menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, putting a formal end to a policy that had been indefinitely delayed under the Biden administration.  A regulatory filing showed the rule had been “withdrawn” on Jan. 21, President Trump’s second day in office. The move is a […]

Judge blocks Missouri abortion ban after ballot measure's passage

Judge blocks Missouri abortion ban after ballot measure's passage

A state circuit court judge blocked some parts of Missouri’s near-total abortion ban after an abortion ballot measure’s passage in November. But the ruling preserved other restrictions, including that abortion facilities have to be licensed by the state.  In his Friday preliminary injunction, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang wrote that the state’s abortion […]

Only adverts showing junk food covered by TV ban

Only adverts showing junk food covered by TV ban

Katharine Jenner, director of the Obesity Health Alliance, an umbrella group for health campaigners, had argued for brands to be included in the ban, and said she would like to see firms respond by making their products healthier. “That would be the ideal thing, but they can get round it by just showing the brand […]

Porridge and crumpets included in new junk food ad ban

Porridge and crumpets included in new junk food ad ban

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, cook and Wahaca restaurant chain co-founder Ms Miers welcomed the advertising ban. “The government is taking very concerted, bold, and very brave action against big food [companies] who have a complete control of our food environment,” she said. Ms Miers said the ban would reduce the strain on […]

Supreme Court grapples with flavored vape ban: Key takeaways

Supreme Court grapples with flavored vape ban: Key takeaways

The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments about the federal regulation of flavored e-cigarettes, in a case pitting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against two vaping companies.   Justices weighed whether the agency acted lawfully when it denied the applications of the companies to market fruity and dessert-flavored liquids for their electronic nicotine products. […]

Supreme Court weighs FDA ban on flavored vapes

Supreme Court weighs FDA ban on flavored vapes

Supreme Court justices grappled Monday with arguments about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of flavored electronic cigarettes — and whether the agency acted unfairly in its decision to bar two companies from marketing their products with flavors the agency deemed were a risk to young people.  The justices examined whether the FDA acted […]

Kentucky woman seeking abortion sues state over near-total ban

Kentucky woman seeking abortion sues state over near-total ban

A Kentucky woman who wants an abortion filed a lawsuit Tuesday to strike down the state’s near-total ban.  The lawsuit alleges the woman, referred to as Mary Poe, is about seven weeks pregnant and is suffering severe harms because the government has denied her access to the care she needs.   The complaint, filed in […]